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Midnight Children

By: Salman Rushdie

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In?Midnights Children, Saleem, the protagonist, has been endowed with telepathic powers as a result of the unusual time that he was born, and these powers allow him to connect with one thousand other such children who were born at that hour. Besides Saleem, the readers are introduced to other characters as well, two of them being Shiva and Parvati, who are also endowed with mysterious powers as a result of being born at that particular time in Indias history. Saleem assembles all of these charac...ters telepathically, and they attempt to understand the relevance of their gift.

The story is based on actual historical facts as well as fiction, and provides the readers with a great deal of insight into the lives of people who lived during the Partition of India.?Midnights Children?highlights the plight of the people and the problems faced by the leaders as well.
The book won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Best of Booker twice, and the James Tait Prize. This book has also been adapted into a movie titled?Midnights Children, and was directed by Deepa Mehta. This movie premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival in 2012.

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